Activate!Activate!  July 30 – August 6

Tonight's Activate! at 7pm is full of bands you should go see live in Richmond, including School Dance (pictured) who have two gigs scheduled, Cosby who will be filming a video, Black Girls who play a Get On Up release party, and The Atkinsons who will take part in the RVA Musicians & Friends series. Plus, I'll give you a chance to to win tickets to see rock and rollers Jeff the Brotherhood in Charlottesville!

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ACTIVATE! 7-30-14

BSTFRND (of Satellite Syndicate) / sumn sumn / diy – The Shop, Aug. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Ohbliv)

Stephen Marley / Somone to Love /  Tuff Gong – Pocahontas State Park, Aug. 6 @ 5pm (w/ Slightly Stoopid, G. Love & Special Sauce)

Liza Kate / Sun's No fool / Holidays for Quince – Hardywood Brewery, Aug. 2 @ 5pm (w/ Jonathan Vassar, Sarah White & the Pearls, Robert Cody Marshall, Jesse Thompson)

Flight of Salt / You Find Me / diy – The Camel, Aug. 5 @ 7pm (w/ Jim Waive of the Young Divorcees)

The Atkinsons / You Could Go / diy – RVA Musicians & Friends / Capital Ale House, Aug. 2 @ 3:30pm (w/ Exebelle & the Rusted Cavalcade, Relacksachian)

Exebelle & the Rusted Cavalcade / Flood Walls / diy

The Southern Belles / Roy / diy – The Camel, Aug. 1

Atlas Road Crew / Hot Rod / diy – The Camel, Aug. 2 @ 9pm (w/ Commonwealth)

Major and the Monbacks / Don't Say a Word / diy – The Camel, July 31 @ 7pm (w/ Matt Jones and the Bobs)

Pigeons Playing Ping Pong / Schwanthem / diy – The Broadberry, July 31 @ 8pm (w/ Moon Hooch)

Cosby / Tightrope / diy – Video Shoot / Strange Matter, Aug. 2 @ 5pm

The Guru / Nostalgic / Seagreen – Strange Matter, Aug. 5 @ 9pm (w/ the Foam, School Dance, Spacemonster)

School Dance / Living Room / diy – Gallery 5, Aug. 1 @ 7pm (w/ Toxic Moxie, Todd Matthews, ANIMAL DJs)

Toxic Moxie / Talking Hands / diy

Black Girls / Sometimes / diy – Get On Up release party / The Broadberry, Aug. 1 @ 8pm (w/ The Big Payback, The Green Boys)

Grass Panther / Nothing in Common / diy – Monument City Coffee & Records, Aug. 3 (w/ Stephen Lee, Ward Harrison)

Lightfields / Better / diy – Strange Matter, Aug. 1 @ 9pm (w/ Red States, Derek Every & His Band of Misanthropes)

Derek Every & His Band of Misanthropes / Without You / diy

Jeff the Brotherhood / Staring at the Wall / Warner – The Southern in Charlottesville, Aug. 8 @ 8:30pm

The Hotelier / In Framing / Tiny Engines – Strange Matter, Aug. 5 @ 5pm (w/ Boxer, Little Big League, Foxing)

Little Big League / My Very Own You / Tiny Engines

 Foxing / Inuit / Triple Crown

Energy 2000 / Extra-Vehicular Activity / diy – Strange Matter, July 31 @ 9pm (w/ Jerkagram, The Moonbees, Whatever)

Jerkagram / Stone Mouth / diy

It Looks Sad / Radical / Tiny Engines – Emilio's, Aug. 3

Muscle & Bone / To Fix the Past, You Must Destroy the Future / Black Numbers – Strange Matter, Aug. 1 @ 5pm (w/ Frameworks, Young & Heartless, Springtime)

Frameworks / Preamble / Fair Weather

Springtime / Closer / diy

American Sharks / Overdrive / The End – Strange Matter, Aug. 3 @ 9pm (w/ Whores, Hex Machine)

Whores / Fake Life / Brutal Panda

Gnarwahl / Cool River / diy – Strange Matter, Aug. 6 @ 9pm (w/ Burn/Ward, Navi, Pinecones)

Navi / Unicorn Holocaust / diy

The Wayward / Live in a Vacuum / Magic Bullet – Ask a punk, Aug. 1 @ 6pm (w/ Inter Arma, Men's Room)

The Silo Effect / Yam Fighter / diy – The Broadberry, Aug. 2 @ 8pm

Even more shows:

Faceship – Emilio's, July 31 (w/ Paul Willson)

Dark Star Orchestra – A Very Jerry Birthday Jam / Pocahontas State Park, Aug. 1 @ 4pm & Aug. 2 @ 2pm (w/ The Weight, The Bridge)

New Misty Centrals – Crossroads, Aug. 1 @ 8pm

Lefty & the Strangers – Savory Grain, Aug. 1 @ 10pm

Full Moon Fever – Cary Street Cafe, Aug. 1 @ 10pm

Dumbwaiter – Ask a punk, Aug. 3 (w/ Night Idea, Whatever)

Kinky Friedman – Ashland Coffee & Tea, Aug. 5 @ 8pm

Gavin Degraw – Innsbrook Pavilion, Aug. 6 @ 5pm (w/ Matt Nathanson)